He Loves His Bugatti So Much, He Parks It In the Living Room of His $10.999 Million Las Vegas Home
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As a lifelong auto enthusiast, Julius Salerno believes collector cars are pieces of art and should be displayed.
So when the beauty-business mogul bought a Las Vegas home in 2020, he installed a 13-foot-wide front door so he can drive his collector cars—including a Bugatti Veyron, Pagani Huayra and Koenigsegg Agera RS—into the living room. There is also an elevated circular table where he displays his Ducati motorcycle.
Now Salerno is moving to Dubai, so he is putting the home on the market for $10.999 million.
Salerno bought the seven-bedroom house for $4.95 million. Measuring about 11,400 square feet, it has a four-car garage for his everyday cars, said listing agent Michele Sullivan of Douglas Elliman. Located in the guard-gated Ridges community about 10 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, the home overlooks the Bear’s Best Las Vegas golf course.
Salerno is an attorney and the co-founder of a California-based wigs and hair-extension company Bellami Hair, which he sold in 2022. Salerno said he moved his primary residence to Las Vegas from California in 2020 in part for tax reasons. He still has a home in California he visits when he is there for work, according to Sullivan.
Salerno has a collection of approximately 100 vehicles, several of which are displayed at any one time in his Las Vegas living room. He keeps the rest of his collection in a warehouse.
After he bought the roughly half-acre property, he reinforced a concrete bridge over a water feature so he could drive his cars on it. Now the bridge, which leads to the custom metal front door, can hold 10,000 to 15,000 pounds, he said.
The house, built around 2009, has a copper roof that extends over a stone-and-concrete exterior with copper and marble pillars. The property is lined with trees, which keeps the yard hidden from neighbors and the street, Sullivan said. Other amenities include an elevator, movie theater, game room, gym, massage room, two-story office, and Crestron smart-home system. In the movie theater, Salerno installed a roughly $600,000 surround-sound system, according to Sullivan.
Several rooms in the home open to a roughly 3,500-square-foot, multilevel stone deck. The approximately 1,660-square-foot swimming pool has a swim-up bar. Over the pool, a 20-foot waterfall-like feature has copper and marble accents.
The size of the pool is a sought-after feature in the area, according to Sullivan, because the county recently limited the water surface of new single-family residential pools to 600 square feet.
The deck also has several fire pits, a kitchen, a gazebo and a putting green.
Salerno has visited Dubai several times and enjoys the lifestyle there, according to Sullivan. He will take some of his cars with him when he moves, but plans to keep many of them in the states, she said.
The Ridges is among the most sought-after neighborhoods in Southern Nevada, according to Sullivan. Homes in the Ridges have seen drastic price appreciation over the past four years, she said. The most expensive home in the neighborhood is asking $21.45 million, after selling for $10.15 million in 2020, according to Zillow.
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